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Research

Current Research Projects

• Spring 2014 Graduate Seminars
• Fall 2013 Graduate Seminars
• Three-dimensional particle image velocimetry with a plenoptic camera
  • Student: Tim Fahringer
  • Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• 3D Density Field Measurements Using a Plenoptic Camera and Background Oriented Schlieren Imaging
  • Student:  Abhishek Bichal
• Application of MHz frame rate, high dynamic range particle image velocimetry to a high-temperature, shock-containing jet
  • Students:  R. Harris Haynes and Bryan Brock
  • Collaborators:  National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA) on the campus of the University of Mississippi and the University of Texas-Austin.
  • Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research, Jet Noise Reduction Program
• Turbulent boundary layers across a porous surface using a plenoptic camera
  • Students: Chelsea Thomason, Lauren McManus
  • Collaborators: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (Dr. James Best and Ken Christiansen)
  • Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
• Three-Dimensional Large Scale Motions in Zero Pressure Gradient and Adverse Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layers
  • Student: Blake Melnick
  • Funding Agency:  Army Research Office
• Generation of an Image Depth Map Using a Plenoptic Camera
  • Undergraduate Research Project
  • Students:  Steven Carpenter
• Bubble PIV Using a Plenoptic Camera
  • Student: Dominic Hildebrandt

Recently Completed Research Projects

• Plenoptic camera to study 3-D turbulent flow over vortex generators
  • Undergraduate Research Project
  • Student: Lauren McManus
• Wavefront sensing with a background oriented Schlieren imaging system
  • Student: Abhishek Bichal
  • Funding Agency:  Partial support provided by Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• 3D flow visualization of axisymmetric jets at Reynolds number 6,700 and 10,200
  • Student: Kyle Lynch
  • Funding Agency: Army Research Office
• Planar Density Measurements Using Acetone PLIF
  • Students:  Zach Reid and Kyle Lynch
  • Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Design and construction of a 3^rd generation pulse burst laser system
  • Students: Aman Satija and Kyle Lynch
  • Funding agency: Army Research Office